The sacrosanct Scripture reflection spreadsheet is circulated among staff members at America. Our associate editor, Molly Cahill, has posted the schedule for reflections, with each staff member being ...

Willow Creek’s REVEAL study shows the importance of Scripture for growth. The Willow Creek Association recently published a second book based on its REVEAL research, Follow Me by Greg Hawkins and ...

Our managing editor, Robert Collins, SJ, also directs an adult-initiation program at a nearby (Paulist!) parish, St. Paul the Apostle. So he’s always on the lookout for good catechetical material. The ...

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...

The practice of picking a favorite Bible verse goes against every theological bone in my body, for two reasons. First, because Sacred Scripture is best understood as a whole. Second, because focusing ...

As someone who is a Christian minister in a public role, forms of that question come up often. They’re both highly variable and all orbiting around the common axis of, “It’s an old book, so…” In the ...

Earlier this year I wrote in this column about navigating the waters of a spiritual recession. At that time, you will recall, all the talk in the nation media was fear of financial recession. In that ...

Recently I realized I was eavesdropping on a prayer, the first in the Bible. I hadn’t noticed I was witnessing humankind’s earliest recorded reply to God. It’s Adam, knocked-kneed in his reticence, ...